Blue Armour

FfS, is this Marescaball without Palmer?

Hilarious to see Sanchez getting defended. Probably just the best of a very bad bunch.

Masterclass passing by Sanchez again.

IMO, Palmer plays his best when Jackson is on the pitch.

Would have kept Palmer on to give him more chances to score from the counter, instead of keeping Nkunku, who has been nearly anonymous this game. George not a bad option to bring on though.

Nice.

Hindsight, Nkuku looking like a poor acquisition, even disregarding the injuries. Not a real striker. Not a real winger. He was okay in the group stages of the conference league though.

Tuchel watching from the stands. Maybe he can give Palmer some pep talk when he joins up with the England squad.

Palmer likely needs Jackson to return to bring out the best in him again.

Both the team and manager are inexperienced. It honestly felt better under the assumption when Maresca said that top 4 priority wasn't a priority this season. It made more sense. Now apparently top 4 was the objective from upper management. And they decided that the current squad and manager was enough.

Yeah, Palmer seems to be on a downer in terms of mentality atm. Hopefully the strong squad he is surrounded with and a motivational manager can get him out of this slump soon.

That Away kit looks fab. 3rd kit too. Home kit reminds me of the 2011-2012 kit.

Regardless of the opinion on Felix, the lack of options up front especially given the unavailability of Mudryk exposes us badly. If either one of Sancho or Neto gets injured, team will be in dire straits. Felix was let go without getting a replacement.

The club allowed it because of 🤑 Any reason to cut costs, this new ownership will do it., no matter the consequence Sorry to say this, but Maresca was the one who enabled this by allowing Felix to leave. The same would have happened with Nkunku too.

Drogba and Hazard having fun :

Kalouda >>>> Eggboehly And make no mistake. Kalou and Malouda have done great things for the club. Unlike the clown show in charge.

I've been saying Egg-Boehly, but yours sounds better.

Levi Colwill part of the leadership group? He's as petulant as they come.

I'm convinced that these fuck8ng directors are just in it to secure lucrative contracts for agents and players who they are familiar with. That's why they keep going after their ex players and forcing us to continue with mediocre keepers. Absolute shambles.

Bargain basement shopping by the directors. Just get the cheapest serviceable option to fix the defense. Because defenders don't sell shirts. Fancy wingers do.

If Palmer goes, it will be for big money. And in the eyes of Boehly & Eghbali, it will be seen as a massive success. All that money will then be reinvested in a ton of youth projects, like you said.

True. There's no quality manager waiting in the wings. The rest of this season has been thrown to the dogs. The club has seen to it, with their dealings this transfer window. No way this club makes top 4 now.

In the past window they successfully killed any remaining depth that our squad had. Moving out players without bringing anyone of note into the squad.

This is true. And when results get worse & fans grow more discontent, the board will take 'action' by cutting loose Maresca. The squad quality will remain as it is.

First step: No shirt sponsors. Heck, even Barcelona could attract a charity organization like Unicef to have their logo on the jersey.